new hard drive

[fluid11]

I just purchased a new 40GB hard drive and installed it in my Linux box as a primary slave. I created the partition and formatted the drive in ext3. The problem is that the drive is only showing as 33GB, when its supposed to be a 40GB. Should I return this drive for another one? I don't know if its defective or what.

Thanks,
Chris

 

[garwain]

I would think that should be about right. Every file system needs to take up some room for the information that needs to be stored about the location and other file related data. The drive may be 40G, it will be smaller after the filesystem takes it's share. I haven't tested with EXT3 yet, but that looks like about what an NTFS filesystem would take up (probably a little less even), so I'd think you are set to go.

 

[fluid11]

I just ran Maxtors software and it reported the following on the new 40GB drive....

Drive Defaults - 40029 MB
EDPT Actual - 33822 MB

Do you know what EDPT stands for?

I have another Maxtor drive in the same machine and it reports...

Drive Defautls - 8400 MB
EDPT Actual - 8400 MB

 

[CaKiwi]

I'm not an authority on this but I believe it could be a BIOS limitation. EDPT stands for Enhanced Disk Parameter Table, a BIOS feature. CaKiwi